On 4/10/06, Ral315 <en.ral315(a)gmail.com> wrote:
It's certainly technically possible. The problem
I can see is that newbies
will be turned off by the rigid structure of it (really, if they're going to
make a three-sentence stub, do you think they'll bother to cite their
sources, even if we request it?). I'd much rather teach newbies bit-by-bit,
rather than give them a bunch of information that will annoy them.
I was thinking that by putting everything in comments, the structure
isn't too rigid - they can basically ignore it if they want. And at
least by putting in helpful comments like bolding the name of the
article, they don't feel overwhelmed by the emptiness of the editing
box.
A specific problem as well, to requesting categories,
is that they'll add
nonexistant categories, and, possibly even worse, click the red links and
create the categories, thus creating more work for new page patrollers.
The wording can probably help them on that one, by telling them to
find a category at a particular page.
Generally I'm unsure on the idea, though I think
it's a decent proposal and
could have positive results as well.
I'm unsure too, but I'd like to hear whether there are strong reasons
for or against.
Steve